I’m an Applied Mathematics major in NUS, currently in my third year of study. The courses in this field have trained me into an analytical and logical individual, with good reasoning and problem solving skills. Equipped with these skills and being one who is positive, determined, organized and responsible, I’m competent of completing challenging and critical tasks with confidence. As a dedicated learner and a passionate entity, I took up dance classes and other course like Pilates during the first two years of my university life and it was definitely a fun experience.
My notion is: “Work hard and play hard”.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Everyone deserves a pat on their shoulders.
Writing a research report is definitely not an easy job. From the coming up of the research topic all the way to writing the final report, it was definitely sheer hard work. I believe that everyone have put in their fullest effort in coming up with this final piece of written report and thus, everyone deserves a pat on their shoulders.
Frankly speaking, I’ve never really written a research report before (other than the Project Work (PW) that we did in our Junior Colleges). I believe that through this research process, I have gotten a slight preview of how it is like to do academic research. I’ve also gained insights on how to go about writing a literature review, transmittal letter and what should be included in a full academic report. It was definitely a good exposure.
Effective communication skills are definitely required in a research team. Especially with the advance technologies, communication is no longer restricted to face to face communication. Through emails and short message services (sms-es), messages can be conveyed easily without meeting up with the other parties. However, using web conversations have their disadvantages too, especially for someone who is absent-minded like me.
Last Saturday, our group decided to meet up in school to finish our draft for the project. The initial time to meet was 9.30am, however, as Carolyn had something on in the morning, she can only meet us at 12pm and so I messaged Thomas to ask if he wanted to change the timing to 12pm instead. The conversation was as follows:
Thomas: “Up to you, I’ll be in school at 9.30am”
Apparently, my reply was like that:
Frankly speaking, I’ve never really written a research report before (other than the Project Work (PW) that we did in our Junior Colleges). I believe that through this research process, I have gotten a slight preview of how it is like to do academic research. I’ve also gained insights on how to go about writing a literature review, transmittal letter and what should be included in a full academic report. It was definitely a good exposure.
Effective communication skills are definitely required in a research team. Especially with the advance technologies, communication is no longer restricted to face to face communication. Through emails and short message services (sms-es), messages can be conveyed easily without meeting up with the other parties. However, using web conversations have their disadvantages too, especially for someone who is absent-minded like me.
Last Saturday, our group decided to meet up in school to finish our draft for the project. The initial time to meet was 9.30am, however, as Carolyn had something on in the morning, she can only meet us at 12pm and so I messaged Thomas to ask if he wanted to change the timing to 12pm instead. The conversation was as follows:
Thomas: “Up to you, I’ll be in school at 9.30am”
Apparently, my reply was like that:
“I think I’ll be in school at 9.30am.”
However, being absent-minded and being slow in my thinking process, my mind was still focused on the “Up to you” message. Thus, I had this mindset that I should be in school at 12pm. The next morning, when I received Thomas’s message and to my horror, I realized that I was supposed to be in school by 9.30am. Immediately, my face turned green.
However, being absent-minded and being slow in my thinking process, my mind was still focused on the “Up to you” message. Thus, I had this mindset that I should be in school at 12pm. The next morning, when I received Thomas’s message and to my horror, I realized that I was supposed to be in school by 9.30am. Immediately, my face turned green.
From the above incident, we can see that effective communication is definitely important. And I'm sure that I've learnt my lesson.
I have to say that I had fun working with Carolyn and Thomas. Everything went well. Everyone did their part for the project and there were no major disputes or conflicts within the team. Other than working on the project, I have also gained insights on how to operate certain computer programme. (=
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